The IDF on Wednesday dispatched troops and aircraft to the border with Egypt — near the Israeli border community of Shlomit — after several white pickup trucks approached the area from the Egyptian side.

Military sources said the Israel Defense Forces contacted the Egyptian military to come and disperse the gathering, which had spooked Israeli civilians living in the area. White pickup trucks have come to be associated with Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, when the terror group employed the vehicles as it broke through the border.

Wednesday was not the first time that pickup trucks have been spotted on the Egyptian side of the border in recent days, though the military has said there is no threat to Israeli residents.

Military officials told the local Eshkol Regional Council that “these are not unusual events and there is no security threat to........

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